IQ not a prereq for President
(08/31/04 4:00am)
Journalists, reporters and especially opinion columnists have the luxury of looking at world events in hindsight and substituting their judgment for that of elected policymakers and decision makers. This is all fine and good, except for the fact that Matt Dearborn wasn’t getting daily intelligence reports revealing the links (confirmed by the Sept. 11 commission report) between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda, Saddam’s pursuit if not possession of weapons of mass destruction and the more general yet troublesome effects of tyranny and repression in the Middle East, particularly regarding the rise of terrorism.